arxivcs.LGcs.AIcs.IR2026-07-11
Graph-Constrained Policy Learning for Extreme Clinical Code Prediction
Amritpal Singh, Sebastian Torres, Khawar Shakeel, Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari
Clinical code prediction maps unstructured discharge summaries to ICD-10-CM leaf codes in a large, sparse, and deeply hierarchical label space. Most systems treat the task as flat multi-label classification, scoring codes independently and providing limited training signal for ra…